TY - BOOK ID - 1221232 TI - New essays on The red badge of courage PY - 1986 SN - 0521315123 0521304563 0511624492 0511870205 9780521315128 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Crane, Stephen KW - Crane, Stephen, KW - United States KW - Etats-Unis KW - History KW - Literature and the war KW - Histoire KW - Littérature et guerre KW - Littérature et guerre KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Literature and the war. KW - Crane, Stephen, - 1871-1900 - Red badge of courage KW - United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Literature and the war UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1221232 AB - First published in 1895, The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author immediate fame. In his introduction to this volume, Lee Clark Mitchell discusses how Crane broke with the conventions of both fiction and journalism to create a uniquely 'disruptive' prose style. The five essays that follow each explore different aspects of the novel. One studies the problem of establishing the authentic text; another examines it as a war novel; a third considers it as a critique of the rising mood of militant imperialism in the 1890s; a fourth focuses on the double perspective of the novel - its shift between the hero's perspective and a larger, 'cosmic' one; and the final essay examines the novel's deconstruction of courage/cowardice. Written in a highly accessible style, these essays represent the best of recent scholarship and provide students with a useful introduction to this major novel. ER -